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Test trial convicts fossil fuel bosses of 'ecocide' | Damian Carringtonhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/sep/29/ecocide-oil-criminal-court
Top lawyers put fossil fuel bosses on trial in the UK's supreme court in a mock case to explore if ecocide - environmental destruction - could join genocide as a global crime<p><strong>Update: </strong>Two verdicts of guilty, one not guilty: that was the conclusion of the mock ecocide trial (details below) held at the UK's supreme court on 30 September. Real lawyers, judges and a public jury found the CEOs of fictional fossil fuel companies guilty of &quot;extensive destruction, damage to or loss of ecosystem(s) to such an extent that the peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory, and of other territories, has been severely diminished&quot;, as a result of their company's extraction of oil from tar sands in Canada. The jury found one of the CEOs not guilt on the count of damage caused by an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.</p><p>Ecocide: The extensive damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/sep/29/ecocide-oil-criminal-court">Continue reading...</a>OilLawUK supreme courtEnvironmentOil sandsOil spillsMichael MansfieldWed, 05 Oct 2011 10:56:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2011/sep/29/ecocide-oil-criminal-courtOrjan F. Ellingvag/CorbisChemical waste in a tailing pond at the Syncrude open pit oil excavation mine in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, July 21, 2009. Photograph: Orjan F. Ellingvag/CorbisDamian Carrington2011-10-05T10:56:00Z